Chinese Central Asia, C.P. Skrine, with an introduction by Younghusband, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926
Very good condition, in original green cloth, slight rubs, partial Henry Hall bookplate on map front flyleaf.
From Google Books Snippet: "Chinese Central Asia written in the 1920s is an interesting travelogue
of the journey undertaken overland to Chinese Turkistan through the
Karakoram Mountains and Passes, by C P Skrine the then British Consular
General to Chinese Turkistan. Our journey starts in dusty Quetta on the
borders of Iran. It is a story of the times when the main form of travel
was on horse back or on foot. The luxury of road or air travel was not
available to those who wished to travel to the more out-of-the-way
regions of the world at that time. This opportunity to travel was so
inviting to both the author and his wife that he jumped at the chance to
visit this region. The author leaves no stone unturned to complete his
tour and to give us a vivid description of his travels in this remote
region. In his introduction Younghusband makes a very pertinent
statement when he says that our impression of the unchanging belief in
the unchangeable east is shattered by the bowler hatted Chinese
representative who meets our travellers. Our author takes us to many
places in his journey and each step gives us a vivid idea of the vistas
and ways of the people of that time. His travels awake an interest in
all of us who have the wanderlust and a desire to visit distant places
in this world."
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